World of BarCraft

Ceili's Irish Pub and Restaurant - Southland location, 11AM - 9PM

We had about 220-250 people show up! <3

One of the best, most memorable, moments for me was when Ceili's brought out a bunch of really nice stuff to give away in our raffle, just because. They bought two really nice quality laptop bags and Stella glasses. I think my jaw actually dropped. They've been supportive the entire time but they went over the top.

At one point we were putting text overlays onto the screen to advertise for some of the people that were involved in making the barcraft happen and the guy that was doing them spelled a bunch of stuff wrong. I gave up part way through the night trying to get him to fix spelling errors. *facepalm*

As far as events go, we had The Node (nodegaming.com) bring some computers in for people to game on and Tristen 'BloodyIron' from LANified! (http://www.lanified.com/) ran a KotH on two of those computers. We also ran some trivia at various tables throughout the event, awarding all of the cool stuff Twitch.tv sent us.

In addition, the Node gave us a bunch of awesome stuff to give away for our raffle. Comic-Kazi (http://www.comickazi.com/) donated some beautiful Halo Reach figurines and set up a booth to sell their wares. We also had a couple on the spot donations to the raffle; Brian Robertson (http://msscripting.com/) made up his own version of the Boxer 'Emperor' posters and donated one of those to our pool, while the gentlemen at Nerds and Geekery also randomly showed up and gave us a t-shirt (http://www.nerdsandgeekery.com).

As for organizers, thank you Kiefer McCrae, Denton Davies, David Sharow, and Benjamin Odegaard, the other members of my team. And of course, Ken Cheung and everyone at Ceili's for making it 10X better than we could've managed.

Club 1234 - 11 AM to 9 PM

We had a littlle less than 1000 people! ***World Record***

What BarCraft Montreal 2 will be remembered for : The exhilerating crowd. The sickest production value in eSports with 7 screens, including a huge 8 meters wide 1080p screen with 2 additonnal HD projectors on the sides, making for a sick main hall, presented by Vuugo.com, that had over 400 people, maybe 500.
In addition, 2 additionnal rooms were opened this time, a normal room was available to people that wanted seats with 1 more HD projector. That room had space for around 150 people.

The third room was what made this BarCraft so special : The EG GrandMaster Lair. That room was basicly VIP. Around 150 lucky participants had confy chairs with 3 Huge TVs, got 1 tshirt, free pizza, some appetisers and a ton of EG shirts were given. All-in-all, that room was a small BarCraft in itself. Thanks EG! Techni-Productions did an awesome job setting up a total of 8 screens together.

CyberActiv.ca was on top of the streaming and ads running along the show. We had both streams going on, the alternative stream was in the blue room for a while, with ads from the partrners and sponsors during the blank spots. Hell, even EG TV spots were played during key moments.

As far as events goes, we had 2 awesome giveaways from partners. Thanks to Vuugo.com and Asus for giving a ton of gear including some sick video cards. Team EG's partners also pitched in. Kingston even gave DDR Memory kits, SSDs(one of which was actually given by MC Mario, Owner of the club, which actually confirmed that there would be a 3rd event!), Split Reason with a ton of t-shirts, InWin gave some SSD chassis and more. Twitch.tv gave out some Hot_Bid-style glasses, flasks and more!

And of course, the most sickest nerd eSports fan moment is when BarCraft Montreal got featured on the MLG stream. Man the crowd went INSANE. I was holding the camera while people were shouting at me and throwing light sticks. My heart was pounding. it was INSANE!

On top of things, i'd have to say that my favorite thing was the eSports fanatism. My heart was beating so fast when, at the start of each game, people would shout so hard for their favorite players. It was a blast. At the finals i felt like the ground was shaking at the dj booth when I popped the confetis, people were shouting so hard. Sickest nerd chills!

To conclude, I would obviously like to thank a few people and companies :
-Marko and the club1234 for making all of this possible. You are AWESOME.
-CyberActiv(.ca ) Productions Inc for the production and social coverage, Techni-productions for the screens and sound setup and CIPC for the high-performance Streaming PCs. As well Michael Cohen for connecting us with the universities and doing public relations.
-SC2QC.com and MLG for the awesome community support #FORESPORTS!
-Vuugo.com for making this sick production level possible, you guys are AWESOME(Go buy their stuff guys, GO GO GO #FORESPORTS)
-Team EG for pimping up the Team EG Grandmaster Lair, which was full of win.
-Epic sponsors : Linde Canada, Twitch.TV, IN WIN, Split Reason and Kingston

-Charles from Cyberactiv.ca signing out!

Barcraft Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

- Earl of Dalhousie Pub, 5pm-11pm
- 85 attendees
- Memorable moment: The awe on everyone's face as we witnessed the fantastic DRG vs Leenok series. When the final gg occurred, the place exploded with applause and cheering.
- Supported by the Dalhousie E-Sports Society
- Primary organizer and DESS executive Eric Jackson, DESS President Nick Soh
- Big shout-out to all of our volunteers! Most of you guys were there to enjoy the event but didn't mind giving some of your time to help make it a success. Couldn't have done it without you!

- Location, timeframe: Seattle WA, 1pm PST to 7pm PST
- Turnout: About 70 people.

I also did an interview with the organizer, one of the founding minds behind BarCraft, Oskar. Here's the link.

- Location, timeframe: Brewforia Beer Market Boise, Idaho Sunday November 20th 2:00pm - End
- Turnout: 15-20 people (We had a late posting wasn't sure if it was going to happen, last turn out was much more)
- Memorable / funny / facepalm moments: Just a few like minded people hanging out and enjoying the hell out of some StarCraft.
- Quick summary of events / giveaways / sponsors: Brewforia is not your typical bar scene, it's more of a beer market like the name says. Very nice people that let us have our own space and area. We will be looking to grow in the future.
-We have glowsticks too MONTREAL!

- Location, timeframe: Legends Sports Grills in Salt Lake City, Utah Friday and Saturday Evening

- Turnout: Both nights we had about 100-120 people there.We estimate that between the two days we had about 160-170 different people there.

- Memorable / funny / facepalm moments: Sadly, no Faceplam or funny moments just a good barcraft.

- Quick summary of events / giveaways / sponsors: Performance Audio for letting use some very high end Audio equipment.

- Some photos that highlight the atmosphere: I can't attach the photos to the PM how ever we do have photos from the event tweeted by @barcraftuthah you should see them there unless there is another way for me to sent them to you.

- Shoutouts to organizers and volunteers: I organized the event but I would like to highlight Brett Morgan for getting the audio equipment, setting it up, and taking it down and for also convincing the bar owners for letting expanded into an additional room. Daniel Morgan and Felipe Aedo for helping set up and taking down the equipment. Also all the awesome players that came out and made the event amazing.

- Location, timeframe
At a bar (Union Ale) from noon until late.
- Turnout
Around 20 people total, peak of 15 or so.
- Memorable / funny / facepalm moments
An Archon toilet happened (I forget which game), and we exploded in cheers louder than the entire football crowd of 40-50 watching the USC/Oregon game, which had a touchdown at the same time roughly.
- Quick summary of events / giveaways / sponsors
No sponsors/giveaways. It was put together literally the day before.
- Shoutouts to organizers and volunteers.
Tip of the hat to Johnathan for putting this all together! Wag of the finger to Union Ale for moving our group 3 times, sometimes leaving us completely without a place at all.

- Location, timeframe: Anaheim, CA - Clancy's Clubhouse - 19 - 20 Nov from 12pm to end on each day

- Turnout: Saturday average of 25, Sunday average of 35

- Memorable / funny / facepalm moments: everyone in shock over a 16 year old rolling 4-in-a-row to be Naniwa in the finals. Oh yeah... and Naniwa taking down Nestea twice over the weekend.

- Quick summary of events / giveaways / sponsors: no sponsors or giveaways at this event this time. Previous event had giveaways of GamerFood and a 1yr Xbox Live Gold membership

- Shoutouts to organizers and volunteers: I want to give thanks to the various servers that helped out keeping everyone filled on drinks and food, especially MacKenzie and Desiree who were the main servers on both days. Other than that, given I was the organizer and I had no volunteers assisting me it would be silly to give myself a shoutout ^_^

UCSD (University of California, San Diego), Saturday + Sunday of MLG Weekend
10 people
Event sponsored by "Triton Starcraft" a student org at UCSD

- Location, timeframe
West Lafayette, Indiana (Over by Purdue University). 12-9:30 on Championship Sunday

- Turnout
About 20+ people

- Memorable / funny / facepalm moments
During the finals and final game on Xel Naga, the stream started stuttering even though it had pretty much been amazing the entire rest of the day. Bit of a facepalm moment. (Tunred out ok)
Also for me, I started walking to the bathroom as I was checking the bracket on my phone, got halfway through the door then walked back out and announced Haypro had just beaten Nestea. That was a pretty insane moment for me.
- Shoutouts to organizers and volunteers.
Shoutout to Jeff and Gabe for doing an amazing job organizing the event! Also Purdue Starcraft Club. =]

- Location, timeframe: Austin, TX; Third Base Sports Bar, 3PM - 9PM CST
- Turnout: 70+
- Memorable / funny / facepalm moments: NFL fans visiting our section just to see what the hell was going on. The expressions on their faces are usually priceless.
- Quick summary of events / giveaways / sponsors: Started off with about 50 people at the beginning and it grew to a solid 70 people by the time finals came around. We gave away a Steel Series keyboard which was donated to Star Nation by Steel Series and a White-Ra mouse pad donated to Star Nation by Tte Sports.
- Shoutouts to organizers and volunteers: Organizers (Star Nation - http://www.starnationmovie.com and TeSPA - http://studentorgs.utexas.edu/tespa/), special thanks to Bob Taylor for letting us use his MLG voucher and Jenna Hensley for the event photos.

Well, some people debated we are not a barcraft, because we are hosting it in a home, but we do have full bar in our house and was making drinks all weekend. We are just trying to spread the community in our area, once we can get a consistent group of 15 barcrafters, we'll try a real bar.

Our thread: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=283891

- Location, timeframe: Charleston, SC. Friday, 11/18/11 5:00 PM - Games are done for the night. Saturday, 11/19/11 11AM - Games are done for the night. Sunday, 11/20/11 10AM - End of the event.
- Turnout: Only 4 people for all 3 days this weekend, but last time we had 10 people. I guess most people are busy.
- Memorable / funny / facepalm moments: Leenock's run in MLG. Naniwa beats MVP, and Nestea twice. Huk falls to Naniwa. Naniwa being persistent on forge FE/Nexus first every game in the finals.
- Shoutouts to organizers and volunteers: Shoutout to Dynomike and chesshaha for hosting the event, and everyone who came or took interest. For eSports!

- East Lansing, MI (Bagger Daves), Sunday 4-9 p.m. Championships
- 50 people
- Organizers asked if anyone was rooting for Leenock in the finals....DEAD SILENCE lots of NANIWA fans at Michigan State University apparently.
-No official sponsors that I know of, the venue Bagger Daves was very courteous and i'm sure they were surprised that we had that many people on a Sunday night
- Big Shout out to Chris Wickman and Joe Jalbert for setting it up and doing all of the organization including getting the MLG pass. Also all those who came out to suppoort. Look for East Lansing Barcraft on Facebook.

- Location, timeframe - Cravin' Chicago Wings, 2:00-9:00pm
- Turnout ~100
- Memorable / funny / facepalm moments - Seeing Chicago shoutouts in the audience
- Quick summary of events / giveaways / sponsors - Raffled gift cards to the local gaming lounge, Ignite Network
- Some photos that highlight the atmosphere -
- Shoutouts to organizers and volunteers - Silvare, Elysium (Mike), Rosi, Dalmatica (Devin), Steve Tea, the staff of Cravin' Chicago Wings, and Sam Oanta of Ignite Network.

- Location, timeframe : 11 AM - 10 PM est
- Turnout. 50+ attendees
- Memorable / funny / facepalm moments : One of our organizers got a little too drunk and kept saying "I'm Thirsty".
- Quick summary of events / giveaways / sponsors : We had members of our local fighting game community participating in Barcraft as well as members of our Barcraft participating in MvC3 tournaments.
- Shoutouts to organizers and volunteers. Robert Shiner, Dereck Gilbert, and myself, Matt O'Brien. as well as Console Combat and Fox and Hound Sports Pub.

Place: Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil; 13 BRDT - 01 BRDT Nov 19th
Turnout: AWESOME
Memorable moments: During a break, Mothership rushing some silver ladder; Going 3v3 between everyone and defending their rush; HerO vortexing Ret's Brood Lords(everyone went WHOOOOOOOO)

Summary: Lots of beer, pizza and all basically for free. Oh, and one hell of a gigantic television.

Shoutouts: Clan OverPowerS for organizing it, in special oPsVitor and oPsBrunno!

- Location, timeframe
Oliver Twist Pub in Zurich, Switzerland; 3pm-12.30pm

- Turnout
~100 Participants which is incredibly awesotronomical :D

- Memorable / funny / facepalm moments
One time, the screens went black and showed the console of one the Linux Laptops from which we were distributing the streams to the TVs - and at just that moment Tastosis commented just perfectly: "Oh no! That's a big mistake!!" :D

- Quick summary of events / giveaways / sponsors
This was our first event - the first BarCraft in Switzerland, EVER! We hope to get 30 people to come and watch MLG. instead about 100 showed up. So there is definitely going to be more in the pipeline

- Shoutouts to organizers and volunteers.
Shoutouts go to everybody who helped setting up the event, that is Stefan, Dario, Eivind, Vino, Fabio, Thomas, Steph, Lucio, David, Vinz! An a special thanks goes to the team of Oliver Twist Pub, that would be Stu, Mark, Sarah, Jess and especially Brendan Evert!! And of course, last but not least - perhaps even most of all - to all the people that showed up and made the first BarCraft Switzerland a truely amazing event!

Barcraft NL II took place in the "Winkel van Sinkel" in Utrecht, Netherlands. We opened the doors at five thirty and the last match played out around 3AM, we booted everyone out right after (politely though).

With a turnout between 150 and 200 people we had a nice and crowded room (But not stuffed like last time, so we could actually breathe)

We had several Starcraft drinnks and we put in effort to make the Idra GG seem like such a big deal when it was just water poured from a vodka bottle. Several people got fooled and I couldn't help but laugh when they tried to fool their friends in turn!

The Barcraft itself was sponsored by DUH-Events who took care of eleven HD screens and a projector, and were there from around 12:30 in the afternoon easily untill 4 at night to make sure everything worked. They had a mousepad giveaway through their website and the six lucky winners could retrieve them at the Barcraft.

So a thank you for everyone that came by, DUH-Events for allowing us this oppertunity, the Winkel van Sinkel for having an awesome venue, and MrBitter for doing a shoutout to us at the most unexpected moment!
You'll hear from us again,
Pimmeh
www.Barcraft.nl

- Location, timeframe
The venue was a pub called "The Scotsman", great place wiht 4 floors, out of wich we had two of em.

- Turnout
Turned out really great, we had about 300-400 people, im not sure tbh, and everyone were quite happy. Sure, we had some tech issues, and the stream quality was shit. We also had little space during the first hours, but then we opened another floor and it got better. But in general people were very excited, and cant wait for the next event!

- Memorable / funny / facepalm moments
Coming there to set things up before the doors opened and already seeing a line, that was nice!

Going out for a cigarrette two hours later, and seeing an even bigger line, epic!

Facepalm must have been when the MLG stream reset right at the end of the last game between DRG and Leenock, but then it jumped right to the casters excactly when they announced Leenock won, and the roof got blown by the audiences response

- Quick summary of events / giveaways / sponsors
Not much extra happening for us this first time, but we have plenty of plans for future events!!

- Shoutouts to organizers and volunteers.

We were only 4 people organizing this, so I would send a big thanks to our little group, but mostly to all the great people that showed up!! I would like to emphazise that we have pretty strong plans for improving sound quality, stream quality and sitting space for the next event. I would be very thankful if you added this information in the article. We passed around papers where people could write feedback and give grades, and the amount of feedback we got was enormous, so we know a lot of areas to improve until next time http://twitter.com/#!/BarcraftOslo

Links:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=281466#1 <--TL thread about the event, a nice photo as well...

http://www.pressfire.no/nyheter/PC/4309/l-supportere-og-...-Starcraft- <-- Article about the Barcraft, with video, in norways biggest newspaper.

We had two BarCrafts in Denmark, one in Copenhagen (7pm - 3 am at Cafe AE) that had a turnout of more than 300 which created an authentic MLG experience, because there weren't enough chairs. People got quite excited when a picture from the event showed up in the MLG stream. No special events or sponsors, just a whole lotta StarCraft

The other BarCraft was in Aarhus (4 pm - 3 am at Waxies) it had a turnout of about 150 people. Even though we had more seats than last time, we also had issues with seating everyone. Everyones spirits were high though and many people stuck with MLG until after the finals, even though it ended at 3 am a Monday morning. We also had a competition where people could vote for the winner, but the vote of the only guy who had voted for Leenock had been lost. Luckily a lot of people could vouch for that he had been talking about nothing but Leenock the whole evening, so he still received at small prize.

All BarCrafts in Denmark are arranged and promoted by StarCraft Lounge Denmark (http://www.facebook.com/StarcraftLoungeDK) please support this organization, as we are actively working on setting up BarCrafts in more and more cities.
I would like to thank Waxies and Cafe AE for their support of BarCraft in Denmark.

- Reykjavík Barcraft, Classic Sport bar Ármúla 5, Sunday 20. Nov. All day.
- Turnout: Around 50-60 people.
- Memorable / funny / facepalm moments: The internet crashing during the final battle of Naniwa vs Leenock * Face-palm* The crowd cheering when the stream went back up, just to find out Leenock had won. Everyone gathered around a few people with iPods and iPhones showing the stream on a tiny screen.
- Quick summary of events / giveaways / sponsors: Classic Sport bar allowed us to hold a barcraft there, even though gamers and stuff surrounding them are mostly frowned upon in Iceland. We are vikings after all.
- Shoutouts to organizers and volunteers.: Huge shoutout to Classic Sportbar for giving us an area to hold this in, huge shoutout to all the people coming to show how big the community is. ^^,

- Location, timeframe
Singapore @ Boat Quay - MLG day 2 matches, 6 hours.

- Turnout
Was our first ever barcraft in Singapore so it was a trial event. Planned to accommodate 30max and in the end we had 60+

- Memorable / funny / facepalm moments
Drunk frogmite chanting MAAAAAAAAAACHINE! Unfortunately after the hype machine promptly got rolled over.

- Quick summary of events / giveaways / sponsors
Private event made possible courtesy of Molly Mallone's Irish Pub. No sponsors/giveaways.

- Shoutouts to organizers and volunteers.
Frogmite, evilSWAT and the sc2sea, tL and reddit community.

- Location
"The Basement" in Perth

- Turnout
Pretty good. It was a delayed broadcast.

- Thanks to Azzur for the blog about this event.